[Freeciv-Dev] Re: comments on ics solutions

[Marco Colombo <marco@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Paul Zastoupil wrote:

> A similiar patch was recently committed.  Although it only removed the
> 'false' floor of corruption.  Cities can now have 0 trade.
> http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200102/msg00448.html

Sorry, I'm lurking in a very loose way on this list B-)

> I was going to work on a more general patch to remove certain amounts
> of science from smaller cities.  But maybe it should be trade that I am
> affecting and not just science.  I think your idea above is a little to
> brutish in its effects, but I like the idea.  Perhaps smaller cities
> should have a penalty, but not limiting them to 1 trade.  Besides,
> this would skew the demographics, because what you are effectively
> doing is making corruption larger in the small cities, which wouldn't
> be quite accurate.

Well, what is the rationale behind the rule that you can't have a
scientist in cities smaller than 5? Small cities are oriented to 
production, not to services. I may argue that they are not oriented
to commerce either. I changed the corruption computation for sake
of minimal change, of course you can affect trade computation in other
places and by other means. I'm not familiar with the source enough to
post a "real" patch. That one was just an idea.

The problem with smallpox is that it's the best way to increase
trade production in earlier stages. It takes a lot for an empire
with the same population to reach the same trade production with
decently sized cities. And that's plain wrong, IMHO.

BTW, cities of size 1-2 have between 1 and 3 of trade. Either you
limit that to 1 (or even 0) or you hardly notice any difference.

.TM.
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